Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of FA Vase winners

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The list was promoted by User:Scorpion0422 23:48, 20 December 2008 [1].

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List of FA Vase winners

This is a companion list to the existing List of FA Trophy winners - the format is a straight crib, and the PR didn't turn up any significant issues with the prose, so hopefully all is good, but let me know what you think nonetheless...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:55, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• Sources looks good, checked with the Checklinks tool. Cannibaloki 00:17, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Support Can't spot any faults well done NapHit (talk) 16:43, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

• Support I added comments at the PR, this is good stuff. The Rambling Man on tour (talk) 05:54, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:02, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs) All in all, really good, a few suggestions:

• Do we really need to link England? Most, if not all, English speakers know enough about the country that linking to such a broad article is not of any use.
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• "The Vase is currently held by AFC Fylde, who defeated Lowestoft Town in the 2008 final." "who"-->which.
  • Not in UK English. See, for example, "Manchester United, who.....", "Arsenal, who.....", "Blackburn Rovers, who....", etc etc
• "At the time the club was still known by its former name, Kirkham & Wesham." What "time"?
  • The time they won the Vase. Seems clear to me but I have reworded slightly just in case
• "During the 1980s" Comma after this phrase.
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• "was won by teams representing a variety of different leagues and from all parts of the country" Bit wordy and vague, try "was won by teams that represented different leagues from all parts of the country"
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• "In the 1990s there were again few repeat finalists, with only Guiseley and Tiverton Town appearing more than once." Few is rather subjective here. I can think of many cases in which having two repeat finalists is about or even above average.
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• In the Results table, can we use em dashes instead of en dashes?
  • Why? WP:DASH specifically states that en dashes should be used in sports scores.....
    • I was talking about the cells without entries. Dabomb87 (talk) 00:33, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
      • Apologies, I thought you meant within the table of match results. No problem, I'll change it.....

Dabomb87 (talk) 04:18, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments! -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:41, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Source comment Why does Ref 15 use the {{Cite news}} template? Dabomb87 (talk) 23:08, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

It doesn't now :-) -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:50, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

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